Biden destroyed Harris bid by staying in race too long, top adviser says in book

<p>David Plouffe says Biden ‘totally fucked us’ and calls Harris’s 107-day sprint against Trump a ‘fucking nightmare’</p><p>Joe Biden “totally fucked us” by leaving it too late to drop out of the 2024 US presidential election, a former top campaign aide to Kamala Harris has told the authors of a new book.</p><p><a href="https://www.obama.org/about/leadership/david-plouffe/">David Plouffe</a>, who was manager of Barack Obama’s winning 2008 campaign and a senior adviser in his White House, was drafted in to help Harris’s bid for president after the declining Biden withdrew from the race last summer.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/biden-harris-david-plouffe-book">Continue reading...</a>